| This morning, I was looking through pictures of when I went to Arizona for my eighth birthday. I found a picture of a snake and one of a lizard, I really wanted to know what type of snake it was (I found the snake picture first). At first I thought it was a diamond back rattle snake but ruled it out when I zoomed in to the tail and found no rattle. So I climbed up to my loft, grabbed my reptiles and amphibians book, flipped through the pages restlessly to find snakes, and finally found them. The snake was a gopher snake and the lizard was a common collared lizard. Both of which I had never seen before Arizona! I really hope I can go for my twelfth birthday! (I am still eleven) Collared lizard: . Three to five inches . Blue, yellow, white, black and teal . Basks on rocks to keep warm Gopher snake: . Thirty to 110 inches . Tan, brownish red dorsal blotches and black . Scales are keeled . A good climber and burrower |
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On Saturday, I went to a farm with my family, the first thing I saw was a monstrous golden silk spider (banana spider). Then we stopped at the parking lot to look at the baby goats. While our Mom and Dad were shopping in the little shop, Mae and I stayed out to look for cats. We saw one, but it ran away from us. A few minutes later, Mae asked me what a small thing, on a flower pot close by, was. As soon as I saw it, I knew it was a small ground skink. I crept up behind it then grabbed it. I then ran over to Mae with a smile on my face, but he was not done squirming. He squeezed his way out of my hands. When I grabbed him the second time, his tail broke off, but I had a firm grip on him, so I could get a picture. Fun facts about Ground Skinks:
JJJJJJJJJJJJJ Last night when I was eating my ice cream, Dad yelled at me from our garage door “dude get out here.” I thought he was yelling at me because I was in trouble and I had not put my bike away or something. But no, there was a one and a half foot Glass Lizard on my front side walk. I observed it for a while, it looked dead. Even when I poked it, it stayed stiff, so I believed it was dead (but I think they play dead.) I picked it up and it stuck its tongue out at Mom. And she exclaimed, “it is not dead!” It did not drop its tail, they usually break their tails into several pieces, which is why they are called glass lizards. I held it for a few minutes and then put it down and it slithered away. J J J J J |
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